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Interesting tidbits from around the web (August 20th):

• Doing the Little Things to Please Clients | FreelanceFolder – the little things you can do to please clients, and stand out from the rest
• visionmedia’s git-extras at master – GitHub – GIT utilities — repo summary, commit counting, repl, changelog population and more
• github’s gollum at master – GitHub – github's making their git based wiki available
• 5 Site Metrics Every Small Business Should Track : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum – 5 metrics I should be tracking with google analytics.
• My friend the Rails console – Part II « Silence is Foo – more fun with the rails console
• 36 Things You Can Get Your Virtual Assistants To Do For You To Make Your Life Easier. | JoelsNews.com – another list of things you can get your VA to do
• Using a Client Welcome Packet to Get Off on the Right Foot – also heard of this as client on-boarding, this post even has a list of things you might want to include
• ku’s CreateLink at master – GitHub – chrome alternative to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2617/
• fortuity’s rails3-subdomain-devise at master – GitHub – An example Rails 3 app with subdomains and authentication (using Devise). With a tutorial.
• Skinny daemons | Head Labs – daemonized ruby process inside thin webserver
• Integration Testing Resque with Cucumber –
• Why aren’t you using git-flow? – Jeff Kreeftmeijer – git-flow. new to me.
• Just What Developers Need to Know | Use The Index, Luke! – Database performance for developers
• Email Sucks. 5 Time Saving Tips. – picked up on lifehacker, there's an interesting way to cull unknown yet still important email from the rest (email bankruptcy)
• Thinking in jQuery id-itis – first comes div-itis then comes id-itis? how to tame id-itis…
• 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers – ReadWriteCloud – interesting list of mistakes for API providers to watch out for
• Why Social Media Monitoring Tools Are About to Get Smarter – Mashable's take on what's next from social media monitoring tools
• Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA – Button and toolbar styling with jQuery UI CSS Framework.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 28th):

• Apple – Safari – Safari Extensions Gallery – the official safari extensions gallery.
• Try it before you buy it. What could be better? – Flatsourcing – This is crazy enough to try
• Titanous : Mailman Released! – another ruby summer of code project released, this one handles incoming email with "route" based matching on criteria.

Interesting tidbits from around the web (July 20th through July 21st):

• How to be a successful iPhone developer – Really interesting post from a quite successful iphone dev.
• The Radioactive Yak: Mobile App Analytics (or how I stopped guessing and started measuring) – mobile analytics
• kfaustino’s rails-templater at master – GitHub – starting to see more rails templqtes for rails 3, like this one.
• Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Mini Frittata – anything with bacon has to be good
• AdBlock for Google Chrome now stops ads before they download – Finally.
• Getting started with Google Docs templates | Geek.com – How to actually save google documents as templates
• Cocoon – Grid-It – okay, this is pretty awesome. a grid of elastic bands to keep your gear organized in your bag.

Well, the Redskins managed to deliver on yet another loss. They actually played decent football for the most part.

Interesting tidbits from around the web

• Taking snapshots of web pages with Ruby – Ben Curtis talks about taking snapshots of web pages, something I’ve found that might help me in a marketing mission. He links to two other libraries that helped him get started, this one is wicked fast, and webkit makes for some gorgeous snapshots.
• Troubleshooting Christmas Mini-Lights – Going to try the LightKeeper Pro tomorrow, put up our artificial tree today, live one probably by the weekend.
• Rubular – rocks as an ajaxy regex tester/editor, but the best thing is being able to create a permalink to the regex to get or give help.
• Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud – Is this a better use of your hardware resources? I don’t think I’ll ever do this, not really sure I get the point.
• FaviconizeTab – AppTabs never really worked for me, going to try this one.
• RubyConf 2009 Videos – Confreaks is the next best thing to being at a conference, maybe the best thing if you’re not into networking, don’t like paying to travel, etc. Transmission is standing by and I’ll have to carve out a few hours over the next week or so to watch.
• Fring for Android – I guess this was a big deal on iPhone, I have Google Voice on my Droid, I guess Skype might be nice.